U.S. tennis player Coco Gauff won against Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka in the U.S. Open September 9 in the women's singles final at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, New York. Gauff, in a three-set match, scored 2–6, 6–3, and 6–2 for her first Grand Slam trophy.
Belgium became the first 2024 Eurovision Song Contest participant country to announce their entrant when public broadcaster RTBF on August 30 publicised their internal selection of Thomas "Mustii" Mustin.
In late August, con-goers — over 4,000 according to organisers' estimates to Wikinews — flocked to Edgbaston Stadium for the two-day-long Animeleague Birmingham Anime & Gaming Con in the United Kingdom. Wikinews reporter Ash Thawley attended on the second day, August 27.
August 24, the US Department of Justice filed a civil complaint in an intra-Departmental court against SpaceX, a spacecraft company, over claimed hiring discrimination targeting asylees.
Yevgeny Prigozhin, 62, a Russian businessman whose Wagner Group private military company briefly clashed with government forces and advanced on Moscow in June, was among the ten passengers listed for an Embraer plane that crashed in Tver Oblast August 23 without survivors, the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency said the same day.
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